BOYS’ GAMES – Jarmo Mäkilä
The art museum will be taken over by Jarmo Mäkilä’s new installations, sculptures and paintings: a group of boys romping about making mischief, searching for their adulthood and growing a shield against the world. These rites of initiation involve risks. The world of young boys is tinged by violence, most relevantly the threat of violence. Their reality is made of subjugation and submission. The happiness of childhood is a taboo one is forbidden to question. On the way to the world of small boys, to the twilight zone between dream and wakefulness, the viewers encounter the artist and also their own memories of childhood and youth.